Love Actually 2 , the special short sequel for Red Nose Day, has us very excited, but it seems Emma Freud – the partner of creator Richard Curtis – was very against continuing the story at first when he came up with the idea.

Emma, who was script editor for the original as well as the special Comic Relief revival, spoke to BBC Somerset about the long-awaited comeback, and explained that she was apprehensive to revisit something that so many people love.

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The duo, who work with Comic Relief, wanted to make something that could translate well for both Red Nose Day in the UK and the USA, and Richard thought a mini Love Actually sequel would be the perfect idea.

However, Emma told Richard that the first film had ended perfectly and returning to it was "Literally the worst idea you've ever had, it's such a lovely film, you don't want to mess with it. It would be tacky and horrible, don't even think about it.

"But he ignored me and it was very rude, really rude. And actually on this instance he was completely right and I was completely wrong.

"It took a long time to get the script there, it was a very, very bad script when we first started doing it. We had to work harder on it than usual.""It was a kind of weird idea, getting those characters, making it 14 minutes, doing it for Red Nose Day, it was not an easy write."